AOL Flexi - No minimum term/no cancellation fees - opinions?

JMU-95

Thinking of changing from Sky (no problems with it just am sick of paying £17.99 a month for their Access Broadband. I am in a LLU enabled area, but can't receive the o2 customer package of £7.99 p/m 'cos I'm too far from the exchange. My neighbour 4 doors up can though :mad: )

I used to be on dial-up years ago with AOL and didn't have any problems, plus I really like their GUI ..... so I guess, what I'm asking is - are their any pitfalls to this new Flexi Package?

NO Minimum term contract
NO Cancellation Fee
£29.99 joining fee
£4.99 per month for first 3 months
£14.99 per month thereafter
FREE wireless kit to get you started
(so basically £15 per month as long as you stay for at least 3 months)

Has anyone any experience of it?

penrhyn

Not heard of it.
Have you checked which LLU operators are in your exchange, check on Samknowss.
The too far from the exchange for an LLU operator to give you a service is rubbish.
Its more likeley that they don't have any spare capacity.
BTW What is your downstream line attenuation and sync speed.

http://routerlogin.com/

Username admin, password sky

Scroll down to Router statistics.

JMU-95

System Up Time 147:54:41 Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time WAN PPPoA 1381272 1572026 0 772 2484 147:54:18 LAN 10M/100M 23632 0 0 4 0 147:54:38 WLAN 11M/54M 1604618 1421904 0 2529 814 147:54:32
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed 3328 kbps 448 kbps Line Attenuation 47.0 db 28.5 db Noise Margin 9.7 db 22.0 db

from samknows:
LLU operator presence What is this? AOL: Not available
O2 / Be: Enabled as of 19/08/2008
C&W / Bulldog: Not available
Edge Telecom: Not available
Entanet: Not available
Lumison: Not available
NewNet: Not available
Node4: Not available
Orange: Not available
Pipex: Not available
Sky / Easynet: Not available
Smallworld: Not available
TalkTalk (CPW): Not available
Tiscali: Not available
Tiscali TV: Not available
WB Internet: Not available
Zen Internet: Not available

penrhyn wrote: »

Not heard of it.
Have you checked which LLU operators are in your exchange, check on Samknowss.
The too far from the exchange for an LLU operator to give you a service is rubbish.
Its more likeley that they don't have any spare capacity.
BTW What is your downstream line attenuation and sync speed.

http://routerlogin.com/

Username admin, password sky

Scroll down to Router statistics.

penrhyn

Thanks.
Your downstream speed is 3.328Mbps, the line attenuation is 47db, and your noise margin is 9.7db.
With that attenuation you should be going faster in fact 6-7Mbps should be possible.
Its possible that your internal wiring is a problem, you should try connecting to the test socket behind the master sockets faceplate.



If you get an improvement then chances are its a problem with your extensions, removing the bell wire pin 3 should improve things.
http://www.dslzoneuk.net/socket.php
Back to the original point I see no reason why you should not be able to change ISP to O2 and get an improved service.

Ther is a website https://www.o2user.co.uk that may be able to help as well.

deklan99

penrhyn wrote: »

The too far from the exchange for an LLU operator to give you a service is rubbish.
Its more likeley that they don't have any spare capacity.

To be fair to Be it's in their Ts & Cs they don't offer their product if line length is over 5.5 km https://www.bethere.co.uk/generalFAQ.do#faq9
Whether o2 are the same for their LLU is another matter.

penrhyn

With the ops attenuation of 49db he would only be about 3.5 Km from the exchange, thats why I asked for the router stats